A total of 161 depleted uranium missiles have been recovered in southern Serbia in the past nine weeks, local reports said on Monday.
The missiles were left in Reljan, near Presevo after the 1999 NATO bombing campaign, the Serbian news agency Beta reported, citing representatives of directorate for the protection of the environment.
During its 78-day air strikes on Serbia's predecessor Yugoslavia in 1999, the NATO dropped 31,000 missiles and bombs containing depleted uranium, a kind of radioactive toxic material that has been linked to Gulf War syndrome and spiraling levels of cancer and birth deformities in Iraq.
In Kosovo, the NATO has identified some 112 sites where it acknowledges using depleted uranium munitions. But NATO has not given the government in Belgrade a comprehensive list for the rest of Serbia.
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